Telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad may have got the telecom industry up in arms over his campaign against call drops, but he has also worked hard to address the industry’s biggest constraint, that of shortage of spectrum – Prasad has also gone out of his way to dismiss fears of harmful radiation from telecom towers, though it is not clear whether his statements on allowing more towers on government buildings will result in this bottleneck getting addressed. While the groundwork for releasing 3 carriers of 5MHz each in the 2100MHz frequency band was done by the UPA, the agreement...
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